Selling your home in or near Snohomish County? Contact American Reporting Company and make sure you're setting the price right.

Selling your home? You would be wise to invest in a professional appraisal. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; it pays in the long run! Unless a homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like a professional appraiser does, it's difficult for them to get a handle on real estate market forces.

While important, an appraisal is not about the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Rather, a appraisal provides a professional opinion on how much your home will bring on the open market.

Contact us for information regarding services specialized for home sellers.

For Sale By Owner?

Quite a few WA homeowners are making the decision to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the assistance of a real estate agent. But if you're going to do it right, with minimal waiting and for the best price, what you need is a professional appraisal. It can be very difficult to get objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult difficult to be objective about your own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will inform you of what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

Not only can getting a professional appraisal help you set a astute selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Allow you to have the edge while bargaining when you find a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of your home's condition inside and out
  • Alert you of issues and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might stall a closing
  • Lower the odds of hidden problems that cause sales to go up in smoke

Folks are sometimes surprised to discover their home's value is higher than they first thought. So by taking the first step and investing in an appraisal provided the data to support a sale for several thousand more than they originally thought. Alternatively, some people have an inflated assessment of the value of their home, by getting an appraisal it helped them to to realistically price their home in order for it to sell quickly instead of gathering dust on the market for months. Selling too high will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

We also help agents price homes in Snohomish County

You might have a highly experienced agent but it's definitely a good idea to have an objective third-party's opinion of value prior to signing a listing agreement. American Reporting Company can help. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal so both you and your agent have an accurate writeup of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the newest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Consulting services for Snohomish County Sellers: Have a local expert at your disposal

Have you decided against a full appraisal but would like some information about the health of your area's real estate? Maybe you feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you require assistance analyzing local sales and property data. We can be a resource for your real estate decisions with services especially designed for clients with your real estate needs.

After you order an appraisal report from , you can expect....

  • Immediate response to your initial inquiry: We personalize information to the needs of our clients Just explain your situation and offer you suggestions.
  • Quick turnarounds for appraisals: Typically one week or less from the date we receive the request, you'll have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Appraisal and consulting report arrangements to suit YOUR needs: We've done lots of assignments, and we understand that practice of real estateconsulting and appraising there isn't a typical or standard, "cookie cutter" assignment. We provide a variety of report types, and have know how at providing appraisals to consumers that keep the industry jargon to a minimum so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
  • Fast to follow-up questions: When we write reports, we make sure they are written in plain English, simple to understand, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that moderates the appraisal practice. Should you have any inquiries about your appraisal, after you've read through the report, we suggest that you email or call us!